Blue Egg

A queer stop-motion animation live-action hybrid film following four women in a surrealist parallel narrative unconstricted to heteronormative space and time.

Diary of a Head Injury

A bleed on the brain and concussion inspire a crash victim to confront the heartbreak, trauma and confusion of losing connection with the only person they ever really knew.

Wooden Mirror

Wooden Mirror is a 12 minute animated fantasy story where our protagonist Ambo (means both in Spanish/Italian) as a male teenager rejects the violent tradition of his role. His attempt to go against his destiny as a man will put him in the difficult situation of making his first decisions as an adult, debating between his love for his father and his dreams.

Blush: An Extraordinary Voyage

For 18-year-old Finnish–Kosovan Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his life, he’s wearing makeup in public. Luckily his best friend Rai, a young woman on the spectrum of autism, is there to ferociously support him through the voyage.

A Spot for Frog

Locked out of the school art room, a creative non-binary teen named Frog grapples with anxiety as they seek a new place to eat lunch. Imagination blurs with reality in this hybrid work of live action and animation about finding a place to belong.

Grumbles

"Video by Bill Etra, early to mid 1970s, perhaps at the WNET TV Lab?"

Récit de soi

While non-binary representations are rare, Lou talks about their relationship to gender, clothes, and other markers.

Manly Feelings

Manly Feelings is a short film by Chris Blom, about the difficulty that many men face while experiencing, expressing, and sharing the difficult emotion of sadness. The film lingers in this place of difficulty through interviews with men, supported by metaphorical imagery.

Gravedad

Animated short about the meaning of life.

Excoriación

Apocalypse YASSS: Two Girls, One Rapture

Desejo Expõe Suas Orbras (Desire's Exhibition)

With the aim of finding Desire, so-and-so performs a ritual to go down in the depths of himself.

Outside the Lines

Three young queer people share their experiences on what it’s like to deviate from the straight cis-norm. Throughout the film, painful experiences make room for a more positive perspective, such as the overwhelming sense of connection with millions of other queer individuals worldwide or the freedom that arises as one can relinquish certain expectations. This so-called ‘queer-joy’ is being discovered, providing inspiring and moving insights.

Lo specchio di Lorenzo

Spectrum: A Story of the Mind

A documentary about autism and sensory perception that features live-action and animated segments.

To the Brink

A violent stop motion cabaret for the cynical and depraved. Guilt, alcoholic apathy and the inevitable, looming apocalypse threaten to push a young man to the brink.

Miss Odd

In private, everything is pink; Silent DJ Jolene is getting ready for a date to meet Theo. She is rehearsing and being her joyful self. Suddenly, this happy tune gets disrupted by her neighbour Camile, who calls her “Miss Odd”.

Trust Me

Animated short documentary following a young woman's diagnosis of bipolar: a journey of self-acceptance to challenge everyday stigma. In "Trust Me", a genre-bending short documentary, a young woman uses humour and compassion to share her moving and deeply personal story of coming to terms with her mental health condition. When she starts exhibiting atypical and extreme behaviour, her loved ones trick her into hospitalisation against her will. She is diagnosed with bipolar disorder which starts her challenging journey of self-acceptance, confronting internalised and societal stigma, and learning to trust herself and others again.

Blu

A wind strike, a splash of water and an accomplice look. Will they be enough to change the life of a child?

Health

A girl tries to get an online prescription.